The Protectors: The Heroic Story of the Narcotics Agents, Citizens and Officials
in Their Unending, Unsung Battles against Organized Crime in America and Abroad,
by "J. Dennis Gregory" [John
Alfred Williams] (Farrar, Straus).

August: During the height of "Freedom Summer," a massive voter registration
and education effort for blacks, three civil rights workers  Andrew Goodman,
James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner  disappear near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
After a massive investigation by the FBI and other federal agencies, their bodies
are found forty days after their disappearance in an earthen dam in Neshoba
County. A Neshoba County deputy sheriff and six other defendant are later found
guilty in federal court for violating the civil rights of Goodman, Chaney, and
Schwerner.